The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-11-19

IpGian Territory. Ii has popula-
Zion of about $4,000 and Is an enter /
prising place. At Denslen NE stop
ped at McDougal's Hotel. Our bust |
ness being finished in Benison we
boarded train. called the cannon
ball." and started for Paris, and |
must say it was the slowest cannon
ball that | ever rode on. This road
passes through the most desirable
country in the State. The land is
rich and produces cotton, equal to
any in Alabama OF Mississippi.
When We arrived at Paris we find
the whole country has come to see
Sells Bros show We stopped at
Peters Hotel, which fronts on the
plaza or square. We had been 3oid
by several parties. that when we ar
rived at Paris we would find a trem- /
endoas crowd, and sight worth
seeing, but after we had walked out
on the veranda, and taken one look
at the multitude of people, packed
together on the square before us, we
were forced to exclaim, as the one
OF old behold the half had never
been told We had seen a great
many crowds before but never in all
our travels; had we seen such a.
sight as Was there presented. There
must be at least four acres in that
square. in the center of Paris and
the whole space was so densely
crowded, that it was almost impos-
sible to see the ground Cotton,
grain, horses, mules, wagons. carts,
buggies, whites, blacks, Young, old,
married and single, thieves, pick
pockets and confidence men, quack
doctors selling patent medicines and
pulling steeth, auetioneers selling
goods, while thieves are stealing
them.
BY and by the procession comes
in view, and as they drive around the
the square with their glitting char
lots and wagons, while music fills
the air, the scene is completed. As
we said before we object to a circus
on general principles, but we had no
sooner gotten our dinner than we
came to the conclusion that Sells
Bros. had some animals that We had
not seem so yen can draw your own
conclusion.
One can visit any large show at the
present day such as John Robinson,
Doris and Colvin, Sells Bros, Cole,
Adam Forepaugh or Z. T. Barnum,
and he will find that they all have
the same man or claim to have the
same one, California Frank to ride
the bucking broncho, and the same
identical stage, that was robbed be-
tween Cheyenne and Deadwood in
1876. 1t might be in place to state
here that none of these shows own
that stage, but the identical stage
that was captured by the Indians
between CHEYENNE and Deadwood in
1876, belongs to Buffalo Bill" the
proprietor, Of the original wild
West"
1t might be further in place to
state, since | have mentioned Buffalo
Bill, that he is none other than VIM.
f. Cody, or more commonly Bill
Cody. During the construction of
the Union Pacific railroad Bill Cody
had contract for furnishing buffalo
meat in large quantities, great deal
of which he brought down with his
own rifle. For this reason he was
first called Buffalo Bill.
The show is now over, and after
we were through in Paris we started
for Shreveport, La. This is quite a
long ride, and while we are on the
way we will say that Texas is truly
a great State, especially in territory,
for it is as long in one direction as
from Boston to Chicago and large
enough to contain all the people in
the United States, andithen it would
not be more densely populated than
the State of Massachusetts.
Before dropping the curtain on the
Lone Star State, ] desire to say
while other States boast of their
wealth, their territory. their climate,
their geographical location and their
people, the little Mountain State of
West Virginia is good enough for
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